Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TREE AND SKY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON


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First Line: Let my soul, a shining tree
Last Line: On shafts of glory to the ecstasies they know.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings


LET my soul, a shining tree,
Silver branches lift towards thee,
Where on a hallowed winter's night
The clear-eyed angels may alight.

And if there should be tempests in
My spirit, let them surge like din
Of noble melodies at war;
With fervour of such blades of triumph as are
Flashed in white orisons of saints who go
On shafts of glory to the ecstasies they know.






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